--- a/src/doc/user/xmlmake.sh
+++ b/src/doc/user/xmlmake.sh
@@ -27,16 +27,6 @@
dochunky=1
test $# -eq 1 && dochunky=0
-
-# Remove the SGML header and uncomment the XML one. Also used to iconv
-# from iso-8859-1 to UTF-8, but the SGML manual is now UTF-8 ? Would
-# that work with the sgml toolchain ??
-echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>' > usermanual.xml
-sed -e '\!//FreeBSD//DTD!d' \
- -e '\!DTD DocBook XML!s/<!--//' \
- -e '\!/docbookx.dtd!s/-->//' \
- < usermanual.sgml \
- >> usermanual.xml
# Options common to the single-file and chunked versions
commonoptions="--stringparam section.autolabel 1 \